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‘Structural Inequality,’ ‘Barriers’ to Equality, and the (Un)teachable Moment - (USA)
Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder rapped America’s knuckles for being “a nation of cowards” because we “simply do not talk enough with each other about race.” Now, after the Gates-Crowley affair and the president’s foot-in-mouth “acting stupidly” remark created what the president himself called “a teachable moment,” we don’t k
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/structural-inequality-barriers-to-equality-and-the-unteachable-moment/
American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States - (USA)
Site dedicated to Public Communication of all kinds and includes a Speech Bank, Movie Speeches, Audio Figures of Speech, The Top 100 American Political Speeches of the 20th Century, The Rhetoric of 9-11 and links to Communication Associations and Journals
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
Hooray for Catholics! - (USA)
Hooray for Catholics! Category: Kooks Don't be too shocked at the title; my arguments are with Catholicism, not the poor unfortunate victims of that dogma, the Catholics. In this case, one Catholic organization, Catholics for Choice (uh-oh—already, I can tell that one argument against them will be that they aren't True Catholics™) has published a scathing criticism of Bill Donohue and the Catholic League. Here's their summary: From the beginning, the Catholic League was marked by a schizophr
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/11/hooray_for_catholics.php
GRANT MORRISON'S BIG-TIME RETURN TO THE DCU - NEWSARAMA - (USA)
GRANT MORRISON'S BIG-TIME RETURN TO THE DCU FEATURES
http://newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15990
Nettles, Neighbors, and Nu World Music - (USA)
I’ve received repeated requests to share the text I delivered in my pre-concert talk for the Nettle residency at Brandeis . It’s only taken me four months to post it here finally. Regular readers of this blog may find certain passages familiar; some are literally cut-n-pasted from posts here (where I do a lot of my thinking-aloud / work-in-progress). I’m glad so many attendees found the talk provocative — it was supposed to be — and I hope that people reading it here will also find food for t
http://wayneandwax.com/?p=2188
[rise of a monster] how he gets away with it - (USA)
The Guardian called it “rumours” but there is plenty of evidence that Prescott Bush and others benefited directly from supporting the Nazi machine and this is supported in a recent lawsuit:His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election con
http://nourishingobscurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/rise-of-monster-how-he-gets-away-with.html
What is a Classical Education? - (USA)
Yesterday I spent a bit of time looking over the draft national standards for primary school children . I was horrified to see that after one year of school the standards expected children to be able to write a "creative" story. The sample given was an example of tortured writing that showed clearly the poor child had not yet mastered the use of the pencil. As is to be expected, children of six (especially boys) typically have not yet developed the fine motor control to control a pencil with
http://nzconservative.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-is-classical-education.html
Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent - (USA)
By Adrian Michaels Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it. The numbers are startling. Only 3.2 per cent of Spain's population was foreign-born in 1998. In 2007 it was 13.4 per cent. Europe's Muslim population has more than doubled in the past 30 years a
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/08/muslim-europe-demographic-time-bomb.html
Breaking up is hard to do - (USA)
Could this be the end of a beautiful friendship? Geoffrey Wheatcroft, writing in the Guardian : While the rest of us shelter from another horrible domestic summer, lucky BBC executives have been relaxing by the Mediterranean. A Freedom of Information request by the Guardian has revealed that the corporation has been using a distant sun-kissed villa as a base for entertaining. Meanwhile, the poor old Observer faces an uncertain future , with Guardian Media unveiling huge losses despite hav
http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2009/08/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do.html
Mike Duffy blindsided by opinion masquerading as news - (USA)
Senator Mike Duffy delivered a speech in PEI. It was a good speech, listing in detail the stimulus funding going to PEI. Too bad the media saw fit to make up a different speech to report on. The Prince Edward Island Guardian reported on Mike Duffy's speech that hinted at an upcoming election: Rumours about a looming federal election this fall were certainly not quelled by P.E.I. Senator Mike Duffy in a speech to a group of business people Monday. He made no mention of an el
http://stevejanke.com/archives/290521.php
Ajami’s Conscienceless, Crooked & insidious, review About Islam - (USA)
Fouad Ajami Fouad Ajami is one of those individuals who has made a huge profit off the backs of the most vulnerable part of American and European society–the post 911 American and European Muslims. Ajami’s Dishonest Review About Islam should not surprise anyone, we have all lived through Mr. Ajami’s rhetoric and his Islamphobic diatribes. Mr. Patel has done a wonderful job in pointing out the errors and the biases in his writings. It would take more than a thousand words to refute Mr. Ajami.
http://rupeenews.com/2009/08/06/ajamis-conscienceless-crooked-insidious-review-about-islam/
When they start “acting” like there is a problem … - (USA)
George Will took plenty of grief for quoting climate-change skeptic Mark Steyn in a recent column. Media Matters came calling , as did various other lefty blogs, not by tackling any of Steyn’s rhetoric, but harping about his qualifications or lack there of. I’m still waiting to find what a journalism or liberal arts degree qualifies one for, but I digress. Steyn defends himself by noting this recent passage by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on cap and trade and climate change. Note
http://www.threedonia.com/archives/10586
Savonarola: The Bonfire of the Vanities - (USA)
Is it possible to govern according to the word of God? Not just via the interpretation of religious texts but in direct communication with the Almighty? One man was willing to try, and that man was, Girolamo Savonarola. Born in the Italian City State of Ferrara on 21 September, 1452, he was of noble blood and had a comfortable, if somewhat cossetted upbringing. He may well have witnessed the indignities of poverty but he certainly never had to endure them. Educated at the University of Ferrara
http://quazen.com/reference/biography/savonarola-the-bonfire-of-the-vanities/
Campus Watch: Budget cuts at UC schools, Arab-Israeli students protest age requirements - (USA)
UC minority students protest budget cuts Berkeley students staged a protest last weekend, but it didn’t involve tree hugging or anti-war demonstrations. Instead, it hit closer to home, highlighting an issue the UW is also struggling with: budget cuts. A thousand students from Berkeley, Santa Barbara and various other UC campuses marched on Bruin Plaza at UCLA to protest school budget cuts. The students had been attending the 20th annual Student of Color Conference. Among the issues addresse
http://dailyuw.com/2008/11/25/campus-watch-budget-cuts-uc-schools-arab-israeli-s/
Possible Deal on Mayoral Control of Schools - (USA)
After days of heated rhetoric, it seems that the Senate Democrats have struck a deal on school governance with the Bloomberg administration. The broad outlines of the agreement, according to two Senate officials with knowledge of the negotiations, do not seem all that different from what the Democrats were close to settling on last week; the Senate plans to approve the same bill the Assembly passed in the spring and will later add some provisions through amendments. Those amendments will provide
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/possible-deal-on-mayoral-control/
Is College Worth It?---Part II - (USA)
Over a week ago I posted Part I of this series. This might be the final part---but I'm going to leave the series open-ended.This week's installment comes courtesy of the now infamous Charles Murray. I've posted on another Murray article here before. Let's put it this way: I'm not a fan. He co-authored The Bell Curve with Richard Herrnstein, published in 1996. That book argued, in essence, that it was worthless to expend time, money, and energy to educate students whose IQ test results were too
http://history-and-education.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-college-worth-it-part-ii.html
Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of July 26, 2009 - (USA)
Democrats and the “R” Word … Obama Special Olympics Comment, Retarded Term in House Health care Bill and Teaching Moments … Does Any One Ever Learn? - scaredmonkeys.com 07/26/2009 Well look at this “Obamaination”! What is it with Democrats and their use of the “R” Word? Since when is the word “RETARDED” acceptable and why do Democrats learn nothing from the “teachable” moments? It is just another example that no politicians, including the White House has read the House of representa
http://coachep.com/wordpress/?p=1430
McCarthy’s millions…€400 million? €450 million? €480 million? - (USA)
Here’s a puzzle here, at least for me. The week the McCarthy Report was released we heard this. ECONOMIST COLM McCarthy, architect of the “Bord Snip Nua” proposals, presented the measures as a central strand of the Government’s four-year plan to rebalance the public finances and reduce the requirement to borrow €400 million a week to run the State. And… Arguing that the Government was paying the penalty interest rates on its borrowings – in excess of two percentage points above t
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/mccarthys-millions-e400-million-e450-million-e480-million/
It’s All About The Details - (USA)
Yesterday’s post alluded to the latest round of articles in Molly Sheridan’s Blogger’s Bok Club series. It’s a fascinating review of The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt and each article considers the self-described premise of how the performing arts are embracing technology and social networking for better and worse. Granted, I haven’t read Ms. Hunt’s book, but the ongoing conversation has been fascinating and I wanted to chime in with s
http://www.adaptistration.com/?p=5731
Filthy Fiction: The Writings of Zhu Wen - (USA)
By Julia Lovell Chinese fiction of the 1990s was not short on shock value. If we think of the decade’s cultural tone being set by Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 command to unleash commercial forces, then the years that followed proved rich in works that would have done the old man proud. Quick off the mark was Jia Pingwa, who triumphantly became one of the earliest, most notorious cases of a serious writer surrendering to lurid populism, with his 1993 novel, The Ruined Capital ( Feidu ): a best-selling
http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2009/08/filthy-fiction-writing-of-zhu-wen.html
The [sane] Catholics strike back - (USA)
Want evidence that not all Christians are bat shit crazy nutballs who want to establish a theocracy here in the United States? Well, then you need to check out what the Catholics for Choice have to say about Bill Donohue(PDF) and the Catholic League. It is not pretty nor nice, but it’s most definitely a solid bullseye. Some of their key findings: The Catholic League tactics are i) manufacture controversy; ii) try to intimidate the “enemy”; iii) bully the opposition; iv) complain early and
http://bligbi.com/2008/11/20/the-sane-catholics-strike-back/
Democratic Unionist party reptile - (USA)
There’s been a story doing the rounds the last week or so that David Cameron invited Jeremy Clarkson to advise him on transport policy. Now, I saw this in the Daily Star , so the relevant health warnings apply, but given Dave the Haircut’s love of celebs and his weakness for dopey populist stunts, it seems all too plausible. If we’re to believe this, Clarkson – who’s no fan of Dave’s green agenda – told the Tories to piss off, which at least reflects well on him. Over here, of course, we don’
http://splinteredsunrise.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/democratic-unionist-party-reptile/
Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text - (USA)
‘Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text’ by Brian Baker Instructions/ Introduction Readers hoping to solve the mystery of J.G. Ballard’s ‘The Beach Murders’ may care to approach it in the form of a card game. Some of the principal clues have been alphabetized, some left as they were found, scrawled on to the backs of a deck of cards. Readers are invited to recombine the order of the cards to arrive at a solution.* Obviously any number of solutions is possible, and the final a
http://www.ballardian.com/iterative-architecture-a-ballardian-text
Scientific Advertising By Claude Hopkins - (USA)
Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins is one of my favorite books. It is a classic book and something that many people I know who are extremely successful have claimed as the source of their success. The book was the first popular book to talk about measuring and making sure that advertising and promotion efforts go in the right direction. It has been inspirational to me and is relevant to your job search and life. I hope you enjoy it. –Harrison TABLE OF CONTENTS I. How Advertising
http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/2009/08/scientific-advertising-by-claude-hopkins/
Job Tracking - Week 10 - (USA)
mentioned previously, there was at least one incident of racist graffiti here. I'd thought us fortunate that we'd avoided some of the more high profile problems that have happened at Lehigh. But there's certainly plenty of evidence to suggest that the problem is pretty wide. As I mentioned in the most recent Job Tracking posting, the university's response has been a big focus of mine over the last week or so. And it has been a positive experience - maybe the most positive experience - of my dea
http://thedoctorisnt.blogspot.com/2008/11/job-tracking-week-10.html
Why Gay Marriage Is an Issue of Rights, Not of Morality - (USA)
(Editor's Note: If you're here on the Wheaton campus, you can catch this editorial in the new edition of The Pub, available at a student center near you.)On the afternoon of June 16, 2008, California performed its first legal same-sex marriage in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision that struck down the gay-marriage ban in that state. The wedding of Robin Tyler and Diane Olson was a Jewish ceremony and an emotional moment for both the celebrants themselves and for many gay-rights activis
http://chriscarrollsmith.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-gay-marriage-is-issue-of-rights-not.html
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